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AGA Is Rasing Awareness - Children Left In Vehicles While Parents Gamble

Mben

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The casino industry is partnering with child safety advocates to try to stop casino customers from leaving children unattended in cars while they gamble - an issue all over the country, including in Maryland, where a 4-year-old was left alone in a parking garage for eight hours at Maryland Live.The American Gaming Association, whose members include Caesars Entertainment, MGM Resorts, and Penn National Gaming, announced this week that it is working with KidsandCars dot org, a Kansas City, Mo.-based group that works to prevent injuries and deaths to children in and around motor vehicles.AGA chief executive Geoff Freeman said the aim of the partnership is to raise awareness and strengthen the industry's security practices. We all hear these stories at grocery stores or theme parks, he said in an interview. Many of us are parents of young children. If there is anything we can do to be partners to prevent children from being left in cars, we are glad to lead the way. The announcement, which earned praise from child advocates and gambling critics, follows a string of headline - grabbing incidents at casinos across the country, including the one in Maryland on Dec. 31, when a 24-year-old woman from Baltimore was charged with child abuse after police said she left a 4-year-old in a car at Maryland Live in Hanover for eight hours. The temperature that day was in the mid-30s.Continue reading <a href="http://www.lasvegassun.com/blogs/elsewhere/2014/aug/08/casinos-want-customers-stop-leaving-kids-cars-whil/" >here</a>.
 

Sookie

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Seriously I don't get what is wrong with all these people leaving kids in cars. How did we go so many years with out this being and issue and suddenly its an epidemic? I'm telling you...no hope for humanity.
 

Mben

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Desperate times call for desperate measures, I guess. But those measures are totally uncalled for. To those parents who thought they were grown enough to have kids ... grow up and take the damn responsibility of keeping them alive, freakin' a$$holes!
 

slotgal47

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If they don't want them they need to give them to someone who does! That is just ridiculous! You have to be sick in the head to do something like that.
 

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